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This list of county courthouses in Illinois provides information about each current Illinois county courthouse: name, photograph, city, construction year, and further comments. Each of the 102 county governments in the U.S. state of Illinois operates out of a building or complex of buildings known as the county's courthouse .
Manchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census , the village population was 354. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Courthouse detail. The Hernando County Courthouse, built in 1913, is an historic courthouse building located in Brooksville, Florida, It was designed by Atlanta-based architect William Augustus Edwards who designed one other courthouse in Florida, two in Georgia and nine in South Carolina as well as academic buildings at 12 institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [5] On February 13, 1855, by 10 Stat. 606, the District of Illinois was subdivided into Northern and the Southern Districts. [5]
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
Calhoun County Courthouse (Illinois) Carroll County Courthouse (Illinois) Clark County Courthouse (Illinois) Clay County Courthouse (Illinois) Clinton County Courthouse (Illinois) Coles County Courthouse; Courthouse Place; Crawford County Courthouse (Illinois) Cumberland County Courthouse (Illinois)
[2]: 5 In 1839, the General Assembly created Scott County out of a portion of Morgan County. [2]: 4 Winchester became the county seat, as local residents offered to donate land and money for a courthouse and jail. [3] The new county's officials operated out of temporary facilities for just two years before the first courthouse was completed.
Richard Jones Hamilton, First Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County, 1831–1841. On January 1, 1964, the circuit courts of Cook County were unified. [1] Before this, there were more than 200 separate courts in Cook County. [1] In its unified form, it now had a single, popularly elected, clerk of court. [1]